Suspicious Threat Disrupts "Surviving R. Kelly" NYC Screening

New York, New York – On Tuesday night (December 4), a threat abruptly ended a private screening for documentary film series Surviving R. Kelly located at the NeueHouse Madison Square building in Manhattan’s Flatiron district.

The film, produced by renowned journalist Dream Hampton, is about the embattled R&B singer’s alleged sexual abuse victims is set to air on the Lifetime TV channel come January 2019.

However, there are conflicting reports about whether it was a gun or bomb threat.

“It started, we got 25 minutes into the screening,” one attendee told HipHopDX. “Survivors were there, too. Cops and NeueHouse staff told us there’s a threat and we need to evacuate. He apparently called into NeueHouse multiple times, like 20, and called in gun threats.”

Based on speculation within the event, some of the attendees believe that the timing of the threat was too coincidental and that Kelly played a role in shutting down the screening. On several posts, they used the hashtag #MuteRKelly.